Donna L. Pasternak is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin. In her article titled, Going the Distance: e-mail from Norway, she explains a fun activity for language learners. The idea is to contact a classroom in a different classroom; in this case the teacher initiating the task was from Norway, contacting a teacher from Wisconsin. Then the students form both classrooms used emails to communicate to each other and almost test each other, sort of speaking. The idea was for the students in Norway to type in English and give all the information, myths, or important facts about the U.S.A, then the students in Wisconsin responding in same mater.

Overall, I have always been interested in culture and language, as I have stated before, but it is comfortable to know that it is possible to achieve projects of this kind. It has to be really interesting for the students to communicate and find out what is it that people from around the world think about you or your country, your culture. On the other hand, it has to be a great learning experience to talk to someone in a language you are just learning and avoid shyness of pronunciation and little by little practicing the language in question.

As the author of this article explains, “this activity generated high interest in writing to real people their own age; capitalized on their interest in other teenagers’ lives while practicing their language skills, and helped them to form international friendships.” There might be troubles trying to find the time or the classroom to coordinate this with, but I think that it will be possible to contact someone interested in a project like this in other parts of the world, simply because how effective it seems to be.